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Surprise! Congressmen Support Science with the Golden Goose Award
With the budget fight proving to be one of the most bitter, hyperbolic, government-stopping battles in recent history, the outlook for science funding has never looked worse. The shuttle program and Fermilab are now dead, and Mars plans have been...
Derek Mead
5.1.12
Music

Skerrit Bwoy Puts Down the Dagger, Picks up the Cross
Daggering = rhythmic dry humping.
Zipper Z
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

OccuPints: Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder, on Dissent and Free Internet
It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball.
Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing...
Brian Anderson
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Color Memes: The Forecast Calls for a High-Visibility, Magnetic Orange
The business of imagining the future is often a colorful one, but especially for the people charged with picking "the new black." Centered around a top-level somewhat-secret meeting that happens twice a year in Europe, the process of hashing out the...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Cheap Enough for Everyone: Vintage Ad Unearths Apple's Mantra Before Steve Jobs
Apple's long portrayed itself as the feel-good alternative to Microsoft's nameless, utilitarian machines, and as far back as 1995 the company was whipping together six minute videos explaining how Apple envisioned a computer-savvy future for all the...
Derek Mead
5.1.12
Music

Our Date with Xenia
Xenia talks about songs, female legs, and how pictures can steal your soul.
Sophie Saint Thomas
5.1.12
Fashion

These Little Kids Dress Better Than You
Increasing numbers of millionaire moms from Brazil to Kazakhstan are feeling the urge to preemptively groom their kids into becoming totally materialistic assholes.
Stephanie Malik
5.1.12
Photo

Newcastle Issue Launch: April 2012
Nice to meet you, Newcastle!
Kieran Cudlip
5.1.12
Design

A DIY Augmented Reality Multitouch Coffee Table
Take that, Microsoft Surface!
Kevin Holmes
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Brazil Set to Increase Amazon Deforestation After Years of Decline
For as long as I can remember -- thanks to haunting National Geographic spreads and the like -- there's been a small, gnawing bit of worry about the rapid pace of deforestation of the world's rainforests. Sure, it's one thing to try to make smart...
Derek Mead
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

The Second (Android) Coming of Philip K. Dick
There's a great science fiction story, "The Electric Ant"; in it, an injured man is taken to the hospital, where operating surgeons discover that, unbeknownst to him, he's an android. After hearing the news, the man realizes his reality is dictated by...
Claire L. Evans
5.1.12
Music

Legendary DJ John Peel's Record Collection Now Available Online
The late Radio 1 DJ has an epic collection of vinyl and a brand new project gives it virtual form.
Kevin Holmes
5.1.12
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